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Father

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From: Australia

Registered: 2004-06-01

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devil - strange extra dependencies in distro pkg

the devil package currently has the following dependencies

depends=('x-server' 'allegro' 'sdl' 'mesa' 'libpng' 'zlib' 'libjpeg' 'libtiff' 'libmng')

although the config checks for allegro and sdl.. i feel they are totally unnecessary and add a larger chain of dependencies for basically no reason..

imo, it should just be

depends=('libmng' 'libpng' 'libjpeg' 'libtiff')

i think it has its own internal version of zlib, so its not necessary either.. but optional

phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: devil - strange extra dependencies in distro pkg

think about it this way though - if you're using DevIL, then I'm going to assume you're using Ogre3D (only thing I've ever seen that uses DevIL) - and if you're doing Ogre3D stuff on linux, you *should* be using SDL at least...

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Father

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Re: devil - strange extra dependencies in distro pkg

yeah.. but.... but.......... but!!!

ogre doesnt use allegrooooooooooo!

heh.. i dont see why devil would care about allegro or sdl...

hmm.. unless there are functions inside devil that allow sdlsurfaces / allegro-whatevers to be generated directly from the devil images without manual conversion...

dont know... meh..

ive just made my own pkgbuild and removed the dependencies..
if the arch-way says that the dependencies should remain.. thats fine with me.. i dont mind keeping my own copy.. 

phrakture

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Re: devil - strange extra dependencies in distro pkg

I'm not really sure in this case... I honestly don't think I've ever used something with Allegro... so who knows...

I'd keep the SDL support though 8)

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Bubla

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From: Rosice [CZ]

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Re: devil - strange extra dependencies in distro pkg

DevIL is able to somehow interact with Allegro. However, it is the packager's decision whether he wants to support this functionality the cost of more complicated dependencies.

Ashren

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Re: devil - strange extra dependencies in distro pkg

Bubla: This thread is from 2005!!!!

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tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: devil - strange extra dependencies in distro pkg

Indeed...

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